Comb



Dec. 1924- E. L. YOUNG COMB Filed'Jan. 11, 1924 mus/v70? WITNESSES WKWM Q M J1 5 Fatenteti Dec. 2, 1924.

ii a i r 21 EDA L. YOUNG, OE SEW'IOKLEY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMB.

Application filed January 11, 1924.

1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDA L. YoUNG, residing at Sewickley, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, have invented or discovered certain new and useful improvements in Combs, of which improvements the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combs for womens wear, and is found in a comb which when applied is at once virtually invisible, and is effective as ordinary hairpins are not, to hold in place wandering locks of hair.

The invention is illustrated in the accom panyingdrawing, in which the comb is shown in side elevation.

The comb consists of an ordinary wire hairpin 1 combined with incomplete hairpins 2, in this instance three in number. These incomplete hairpins also of wire consist each of on prong and the terminal bow, the second prong being absent. The incomplete hairpins 2 are combined and united with the complete hairpin 1 and with one another in the arrangement and by the means shown. All lie in a common plane, or substantially so, and side by side, and are united, conveniently by soldering or welding, bowed end to bowed end, as indicated at 3. The result is a comb made of wire, re-

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quiring no header band or back, the tines united and integrated merely by continuity of the wire of which they are themselves composed. Thus a comb structure is produced which has the invisibility ot' a wire hairpin.

The tines oi"- the comb may be medially undulated, as indicated at 5, and as is well known in hairpin structure.

The number of hairpin parts united to form the comb of my invention may be two or more, as desired.

1 claim as my invention:

1. A comb including the combination of a complete wire hairpin and an incomplete wire hairpin, the incomplete pin lacking one prong, the two members being arranged side by side and in a common plane and united bow to bow.

2. A comb formedof a complete wire hairpin and aplurality of incomplete wire hairpins, the incomplete pins lacking each one prong, the members being arranged side by side and in a common plane and united bow to bow.

in testimony whercot I have hereunto set my hand.

EDA L; .YlUNG.

Witnesses PERCY A. ENGLISH, FRIEDA E. WOLF OBinnN. 

